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VB6 - Open web ling with Firefox

Hi.

I would like to know how i can force the web link to open with Firefox and still leave IE as the default browser.

Is that possible?

Thanks for your help

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

    ShellExecute Me.hwnd, vbNullString, _
                 "www.google.ca", _
                 vbNullString, App.Path, SW_SHOWNORMAL

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Chris Watson

Shell "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe ""http://www.google.ca""", vbNormalFocus

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Provided that Firefox is installed in the standard location on a 64-bit PC this will open http://www.google.ca in Firefox without requiring changing the default browser. If Firefox is installed in a different location, update the path accordingly.

Randy Poole

What Chris said is correct to a point, you would need to query the registry first to see where firefox is installed.

duncanb7

it seems he want to get the handler of hwnd from firefox application as we did it for IE

Author, please write more about this if it is

Duncan

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Wilder1626

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Thanks a lot for the help. This is working great.